This quarter moon in Leo sets the scene for the ultimate stand-off. In the next few hours, as public mood shifts to greater demand for its sovereign heart to be heard, one can hear the pacing of a very serious showdown about to take place at high noon.

In these tense, unsettling times of sacred passage, when outer planets appear to slow and retrograde, we prepare to stop, turn back and start facing some of the changes indicted and invited into our society since that fateful SATURN/PLUTO LUNAR ECLIPSE in January.

MERCURY in TAURUS can evoke remnants of the dinosaur mind, which is caught up with the most elemental or basic level of thought.